At 93, Joe Potenzano is getting a second chance with the one who got away 64 years ago.
Joe Potenzano and Mary Elkind are getting a second chance at love after the two met each other 64 years ago. Darla Miles has the story.New Jersey natives Joe Potenzano and Mary Elkind know that sentiment all too well.
"She was a nice-looking girl. She's still a nice-looking girl, right?" said Potenzano, now groom-to-be, tells Eyewitness News. "That's why I asked her to go out."Their story begins at a wedding in 1959. Elkind was the maid of honor, while Potenzano was the best man. They dated briefly afterwards but eventually went their separate ways.
Potenzano went on to join the army, while Elkind lived out her dream as a ballerina and later got married. Elkind's husband passed away in 2014."I was sitting in my house one day, sitting in my sofa chair," recalled Potenzano, who is now 93. "And I noticed there was nobody else I could call. Everybody was gone. And I began to feel that loneliness that only comes at 90 years old.""A few days later, thought wandered if he'll really call. But he did," she said.
"I was hoping that there was somebody older than me," Potenzano said. "But's okay. If he wants to be 103, I'll take that as the second best."
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